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Prairie Writers

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10 Things to Ask Yourself in Warsaw and Other Stories - hardcover
By Barbara Romanik - $29.95 - add to cart

The characters in 10 Things to Ask Yourself in Warsaw and Other Stories are obstinately bound to the places they inhabit. Whether these worlds involve soccer fanatics, graffiti artists, or robotic ...

 

All the Pretty Girls - trade paperback
By Chandra Mayor - $17.00 - add to cart

In each of these short stories, set against a finely-crafted backdrop of poverty and violence, abuse and hope, Chandra Mayor provides a glimpse into the lives of girls and young women, allowing eac...

 

Black Pawn - trade paperback
By R. Scott Mitchell - $19.95 - add to cart

Four centuries have passed since the rule of the Darkling Empire, but has their time come again? Two heirs to the throne of Vallon are born. One of the Light. One of the Darkness. Due to the perver...

 

The Body Event - trade paperback
By Don Schaeffer - $10.00 - add to cart

Poems in this volume were written while the poet's forty-three year partner suffers from immobilizing arthritis and worsening cerebral palsy, moving from home care to long-term care in a nursing ho...

 

Bush Camp - trade paperback
By Marvin Francis - $15.95 - add to cart

Both a politically engaged achievement and a highly personal one, Bush Camp is a fitting addition to the unmistakeable idiom of Marvin Francis. A dynamic poetry collection of dry wit and powerfu...

 

Cantos from Wolverine Creek - trade paperback
By Brenda Schmidt - $17.95 - add to cart

Brenda Schmidt lives in Creighton, a mining town in northern Saskatchewan. Her first book, A Haunting Sun was a finalist for the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry. An earlier version of More Than ...

 

Carnival Glass - trade paperback
By Bonnie Dunlop - $16.95 - add to cart

Carnival Glass, Bonnie Dunlop’s new fiction collection, is an examination of the infirmity of human relationships — marriages, brotherhood, friendships, parent–child relations hindered by negligenc...

 

Charlie Muskrat - trade paperback
By Harold Johnson - $18.95 - add to cart

Charlie Muskrat, out of moose meat for the winter and committed to getting some, finds himself in Prince Albert with a 30/30 Winchester under the seat of his truck, Thunder, half a tank of gas, hal...

 

Claudia - trade paperback
By Britt Holmstrom - $21.00 - add to cart

Claudia is born in Sweden, to a Latvian mother and an absent, Italian, father. As a teenage girl in Sweden, she and her friends come upon a murdered classmate in a park. Their dispassionate respons...

 

Cleavage - trade paperback
By Theanna Bischoff - $17.95 - add to cart

Cleavage tracks the patchwork musings of Leah, who, at twenty-four years old and two years into a relationship, discovers she has breast cancer. Told in fragments reminiscent of A Complicated Kindn...

 

A Complicated Kindness - mass market paperback
By Miriam Toews - $11.99 - add to cart

A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews's third novel, is a very funny book about going AWOL in Mennonite country. Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel lives with her depressingly cheerful dad Ray on the edge...

 

Correction Line - trade paperback
By Dennis Cooley - $15.95 - add to cart

correction line is a powerful and evocative poem sequence that reconstructs memory through ancestral connections, and personal history. The poetry is as fundamental as the southern prairie landscap...

 

Cypress - trade paperback
By Barbara Klar - $18.00 - add to cart

A poetic pilgrimage into the luminous presence of nature. In focusing on the Cypress Hills of southwestern Saskatchewan, this series of linked meditative poems takes the reader to a unique landsca...

 

Dancehall Road - trade paperback
By Marion Douglas - $19.95 - add to cart

Set in 1970, Dance Hall Road examines adolescence and adulthood, friendship and family within the ricochet of events through small-town life. When the death of another high school student pushes t...

 

Devil Among Us: How Canada Failed to Stop a Pedophile - mass market paperback
By Mike Mcintyre - $11.95 - add to cart

Peter Whitmore could be the poster boy for Canada’s revolving door justice system. The notorious pedophile had already established a horrendous criminal record before he shocked the nation with a s...

 

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